Systems for monitoring application servers

Abstract

A monitoring system is provided to perform a monitoring operation including: initiating a first process to serve as a first task agent for determining whether there is a monitoring item among the application servers, and if so, generating a monitoring task; initiating a second process to serve as a second task agent for obtaining monitoring data by monitoring the monitoring item according to the monitoring task; initiating a third process to serve as a third task agent for determining whether the monitoring data meets an abnormality definition associated with the monitoring task, and if so, generating an alert message; and initiating a fourth process to serve as a fourth task agent for determining, according to an alert rule, whether or not to send the alert message to a manager of the application server with which the monitoring item is associated.

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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This Application claims priority of Taiwan Application No. 106109495, filed on Mar. 22, 2017, and the entirety of which is incorporated by reference herein.BACKGROUND OF THE APPLICATIONField of the Application[0002]The application relates generally to service or equipment monitoring technologies, and more particularly, to monitoring systems in which multiple processes are used to share out the work of monitoring application servers.Description of the Related Art[0003]Due to growing demand for ubiquitous computing and networking, various wireless technologies, including Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) technology, General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) technology, Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution (EDGE) technology, Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) technology, Code Division Multiple Access 2000 (CDMA-2000) technology, Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA) technology, Worldwide Int...

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Benefits of technology

The patent proposes a method to improve the performance and resource utilization of a monitoring system by breaking down the monitoring task into multiple stages and assigning a process to perform each stage. This way, when the loading of a stage becomes too high, more processes are assigned to perform it, and when the loading of a stage becomes too low, fewer processes are assigned. This results in more efficient use of resources and better performance of the monitoring system.

Problems solved by technology

In such cases, how to maintain stability of the application servers is an important issue, and a conventional solution is to monitor the application servers and immediately notify the manager to deal with the malfunctioning or abnormal applications or services in the early stages of any developing problems.

However, as the amount of monitoring tasks grows rapidly, the monitoring system may not be able to handle all the monitoring tasks in a timely fashion, causing undesirable delays in spotting and handling the malfunctioning or abnormal applications or services.

Disadvantageously, when the loading of the monitoring operation weighs mostly on one of the stages, this stage may very likely become a performance bottleneck in the entire monitoring operation, and the rest of the stages will be idle until this stage is complete.

If the number of processes performing the monitoring operation is increased to alleviate the performance bottleneck, the idle stages therein will be increased as well, causing waste of system resources.

Therefore, the conventional design is unfavorable regarding overall system performance and system resource utilization.

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